The Fiji Times ‘NFP has existed to empower the people’ – Fiji Times

The National Federation Party is not a party of people who believe that being in the government entitles them to privileges and empowerment for self-gain, says National Federation Party member of Parliament Pio Tikoduadua.

This is not a party of people who assume unlimited dictatorial powers or think they are the Messiah and look down upon the people of this country as subservient nobodies, he said.

During the partys national convention last Saturday, Mr Tikoduadua said NFP was not a party where people like wearing $10,000 suits, riding around in darkly tinted four-wheel drive convoys, and being non-responsive to the plight of the common people.

NFP is not a party of people who believe that the words of one man are more powerful than the opinions of all the peoples of this nation, and the plight of its needy.

This is not a party where people believe that all power should rest in the hands of two-men, thereby compromising governance, breeding arrogance, and ruling through fear and division. This is not a party of people who forget that the power is with the people of this country.

This is not a party of people who will treat the government like their personal property.

No, NFP is not a party of, and a party for such people. However, he said, NFP was born out of the need to empower the people of Fiji. NFP has existed to empower the people of Fiji in unity.

And the NFP will fight these elections to restore power to the people. It will be a party that forms a government that is of the people, for the people, and by the people.

Because those who believe in self-interest instead of national interest or my way or the highway kind of rule have ruled over us and driven the country to the edge of the cliff.

Mr Tikoduadua said the only way to guarantee the removal of the current Government was to vote in large numbers to boot out a regime and government that believed the people could be bought.

They think that our people are gullible and will fall for freebies and succumb to fear-mongering.

Make no mistake this is now a thing of the past.

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The Fiji Times 'NFP has existed to empower the people' - Fiji Times